Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) For each vessel that is registered or for which the registration is renewed under regulation 401, the Director must issue a registration label and assign an identification mark.
(2) The registered owner or operator of a vessel must ensure that the registration label issued by the Director under subregulation (1) for that vessel is fixed and remains fixed in a conspicuous position on the outside or upper part of the vessel.
Penalty: 2 penalty units.
(3) The registered owner or operator of a vessel must ensure that the identification mark that is assigned by the Director for that vessel is painted or displayed on the hull of the vessel on each side of the bow as high as practicable above the waterline in characters that are—
(a) no less than 150 millimetres high; and
(b) in proportionate breadth; and
(c) coloured in contrast to the surface on which they are displayed.
Penalty: 2 penalty units.
(4) A person must not fix to a vessel a registration label or paint on, apply or otherwise fix to or display on a vessel an identification mark if the registration label or identification mark is not assigned by the Director to that vessel.
Penalty: 2 penalty units.
(5) A person who operates a registered vessel on State waters must ensure that the identification mark assigned to that vessel by the Director is fixed and remains fixed in a conspicuous position on the outside or upper position of the vessel.
Penalty: 2 penalty units.